The IDOCS DEBMS/CREMAS and CREMAS are not

recommended for data integration between S/4HANA systems. In

S/4HANA, BP is the leading object.
Therefore, only customer or supplier integration should be
avoided. In S/4HANA, Business Partner is the leading object.
Therefore, customer or supplier, only integration should be
avoided. You can use Business Partner web services (SOAP) via
API Business Hub for SAP S/4HANA integration. It is
recommended to use IDocs only if the source system has
Customer or Supplier (no Business Partner) master data.
Role Validity: In SAP S/4HANA, you can maintain the validity
of roles. With this feature, the user can close the (prospect) role
and move to another after the mentioned validity period. For
example, a business partner with prospect role can set the role
change to sold to party by specifying the validity and by closing
the previous validity.
41. In SAP S4HANA 2020, is there any change of the "material
number" functionality?
SAP S/4HANA 2020 can support a material number with 40
characters; previously, it was 18 characters. When extended material
number functionality is NOT switched on, the system behaves as
follows:
After an SAP Business Suite System was converted to SAP
S/4HANA, on premises edition 1511, the B2B and A2A
communication via BAPIs, IDOCs, Web Services released RFCs
(inbound) and remotely called RFCs (outbound) still work
without further changes, the shorter versions of the extended
fields are still filled when sending data or are still part of the
interfaces or are still understood when retrieving data.
If the extended field is used as part of a communicated
concatenated field, this concatenated field is still sent in the
original field in the old short format and is interpreted in the
inbound case in the old short format. Communication partners
can still rely on the old known behavior of the interfaces.